Shirt-sleeve.



L. L. MOORE.

SHIRT SLEEVE.

APPLIUATION FILED I'EB.19, 1910- 974,692. Patented Nov. 1, 1910.

Inventor [1. Moore.-

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LEWIS L. MOORE, OF CANTON, OHIO, AS SIGNOB TO MORDEO AI MOORE, OF CANTON,

SHIRT-SLEEVE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 1, 1910.

Application filed February 19, 1910. Serial No. 544,912.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEWIS L. Moons, a residing at Canton, in the county of Stark and State of Ohio, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements-in Shirt- Sleeves, of WhlCh the following is a s ecification.

The invention relates to thesleeve of a shirt or other similar garment.

The common practice of providing a slit or vent in one side of the free end of a sleeve, to ermit the same to pass over the hand, is 0 jectionable for thereason that even though the cuff portion of the sleeve be closed and fastened around the wrist, the portionof the vent above the cuff permits dust and dirt to enter the sleeve and soil the arm or the sleeve of the under-garment; and, if the sleeve is made large enough to slip over. the hand without means for constricting it around the wrist, free dust and dirt is permitted to pass upward through the interval between the cuif and the" wrist. Furthermore, when a slit sleeve is used, it is impossible to push the sleeve above the elbow and retain it in such position, as for washing the wrist and arm, except by rolling" the lower end of the sleeve upward upon itself.

The object of the present invention is to make a sleeve without any slit'in its free end, adapted topass freely over the hand and elbow, and to providethe end of the sleeve with a peculiar form of cuff by means of which the end of the sleeve can be neatly folded and snugly closed and fastened around the wrist.

A preferred embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, forming part hereof, in which-- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the free end of the sleeve showing the cuff thereon and open; Fig. 2, a section through the cuff portion of the sleeve showing'the folds of the same when closed and fastened; Fig. 3, aperspective view of the sleeve on an arm with the cuff portion folded, closed and fastened around the wrist; Fig. 4, a perspective view showing the sleeve on an arm with the cuff portion open and pushed above the elbow; and Fig. 5, a modified-form of the cuif, showing the use of elastic material in the free end thereof.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the drawing.

around the wrist.

longitudinal seam 2 along the rear side thereof in which seam one end 3 of the cuff 4 is preferably secured. The cufi" extends in width a substantial distance upward from the edge of the sleeve, and exaround the free end of the sleeve, inward and forward and then outward and rearward, in the usual manner; but is secured to and reinforces the sleeve, as by stitching or otherwise, only part wayaround the same, to a longitudinal line 66 some distance forward from the longitudinal seam, thus leaving the plain portion 7 of the sleeve free from the reinforcement of the cuff, which plain portion of the sleeve is preferably a single (ply of the material thereof, while the secure portion of the cuff makes a plurality of plies of the material. The free end 8 of the cuff is extended rearward beyond the line of its attachment to the sleeve, in which free end is formed the buttonhole 9 which is adapted to engage the button 10 located on the secured end portion of the cuff at an interval in rear of the longitudinal seam. With this arrangement of the parts, it is evident that whenthefree end of the cuff is disengaged from the button, the end of the sleeve is permitted to expand for assing over the hand or elbow, and that t e cuff can be closed snugly around the wrist and fastened by engaging the free end thereof on the button, in doing which the intervening portion of the sleeve readily folds along the longitudinal seam and the adjacent securing line of the free end of the cult, so

that only the normal or single thickness of the plain portion of the sleeve intervenes between the overlapping of the cuff, as shown plural-ply portions in Fig. 2; which insures a fiat and neat folding of the cuff and adjacent portion of the sleeve, and a complete closure of the free end of the sleeve And it will be understood that the sleeve can be worn without closing the cuff around the wrist, as in warm weather or when the fastening means are detached, without the objectionable opening to which a slit sleeve is subject.

It isevident that the scope of the invention is not limited to the use of a buttonhole and button as means for fastening the cuff when-clamped around the wrist. In the modified form of cuff shown in Fig. 5, the extended free end or section 8 of the cufl" is onto.-

tends in length from the longitudinal seam width upwar amass formed of elastic material which gives the sleeve is neatly folded between the reincu-fi' an expansive ad ustment, and two fas forced portions thereof.

tenings 9 and 10 of a modified form are 2. A shirt sleeve having a cuff on its free shown. When the free section of the cufi end extending from the edge a substantial is made of elastic material, it is not neceswidth upward therefrom, the cuff being sesary to disconnect the fastening of the same cured to the sleeve and forming a reinforced for passing the free end of the sleeve over portion with a plural-ply of material part the hand or elbow. way around the same, there being a single- I claim: ply portion of the sleeve intervening be- 1. A shirt sleeve having a cuff on its free tween the ends of the reinforced portlon end extendin from the edge a substantial thereof, and one end of the cuff being made 5 therefrom, the cuff being seof elastic material and extended from its secured to. the sleeve and forming a reinforced cured portion and adapted to overlap the portion with a plural-ply of material part other secured end, with means for fastening way around the same, there being a singlethe overlapped portions of the cuff, whereby ply portion of the sleeve intervening bethe single-ply portion of the sleeve is neatly tween the ends of the reinforced portion folded between the reinforced portions thereof, and one end of the cuff being exthereof.

tended from its secured portion and adapted LEWIS L. MOORE. to overlap the other secured end, with means Witnesses: 4 for fastening the overlapped portions of the RUTH A. MILLER,

cuff, whereby the single-ply portion of the J. H. BISHOP. 

